If your God always seems to support your politics, maybe YOU are playing god...

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Then I said: "Ah, Lord God, behold, the prophets say to them, 'You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.'" And the Lord said to me: "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds. - Jeremiah 14:13-14 (ESV)

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The bible says that stories we read in the Old Testament are there to guide us for what we will face today. The past is prologue. The scourge of false prophets and teachers started long before we drew breath. The modus operandi however remains the same throughout millennia because if a good scam works, why change it? The key verses take us back to sixth century when Jeremiah held court. He laments to God that the false prophets are filling the people's heads with puppies and rainbows. You shall not see the sword! I will give you assured peace! God responds reminding the weeping prophet that they are prophesying lies in His name. That He did not send them nor command them to speak. Therefore, they prophesy a lying vision, worthless divinations and the deceit of their own minds. Let me introduce you to Charlie Sham (p). Charlie pretends he is a prophet but he only speaks from the deceit of his own mind. He provides a lying vision and worthless divination. His business is prophesying lies in the name of Almighty God on behalf of the NAR, dominionist apostate church. The link above is to an article on Charisma News today extolling a new lying vision from Mr. Sham (p). So let us reason once more beloved:

"Destiny Encounters International's Co-Founder and President Charlie Shamp says he receives many prophetic words from the Lord. But, Shamp says, he will not release a prophetic word to the public on social media until the Lord tells him to do so. But here's one that is good news for the people of this country: Shamp says God told him that He "Will bring America back again."' - Charisma News

It must be comforting to have the Creator of the entire universe on your speed dial. I am imagining a red bat phone somewhere in the Sham (p) residence that lets him know that Jehovah is trying to reach him. Is anyone else mildly curious why Charlie's god likes to give him messages that he must sit on until the "release date." Is God somehow maximizing the hype? Like He has a new album that is going to drop? I want us to take a big step back and see this picture with proper perspective and context. God created everything beloved that we know and the indefinable things we will never know, yet He chills out with Charlie Shamp? This is His chosen vessel to deliver words He must have forgot to mention in the bible? Even if you bought that garbage on its face, what about all of the other false prophetic voices claiming that they too hear directly from He who spoke everything into existence? What about Benny Hinn, James Goll, Kris Vallotton, Shawn Bolz, Bill Johnson, Jennifer LeClaire, Patricia King, Cindy Jacobs, and Mike Bickle, just to name a very few. Exactly how much are we to believe God forgot to tell us in His word?

Let us apply this thought to this word Shamp is bringing us, which he claimed came directly and audibly from God. The Lord Almighty told Charlie Shamp that He will bring America back? Really? Back from where? Listen very closely beloved. If your "god" is always in alignment with your carnal political beliefs, chances are you are playing god in that scenario. God is no respecter of person. Two different people can have two wildly different opinions of the state of this country. One might believe the last three years have been nothing short of miraculous while the other might view it is a post-apocalyptic hellscape. The NAR dominionist sells the latter vision because the Republican Party wants to be back in power. So where does Charlie Shamp believe God needs to bring America back to? To the musings of the apostate church, he is associated with?

"This is good news as Shamp has a pretty strong prophetic track record"mainly because when he receives one, he says he goes on an extended time of fasting, prayer and consecration before the public ever hears about it. Timing, Shamp says, is a huge factor in the release of a prophetic word. His prophesying of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is one where timing was crucial. "I got that months and months and months before it was ever released," Shamp told Charisma News' John Matarazzo in a recent interview. "The date was very specific on when the Lord told me to release it. And when the Lord said release it, there was a timing to that. When you go back and look at that, now we know that the date when I released that, a year from that date is when Russia invaded Ukraine." - Charisma News

Uh-huh. Since we have no real way of knowing when he "receives" his words, this point is all but meaningless. I cannot find on his website any prophecy a year before Russia invaded for the record. Even if this was true, what significance does it serve to not release it until the year before? I guarantee the word when given did not include that it would start a year from then, because if it did, then theoretically it would have been useful. Either way, look at the expression that he has a "pretty strong" prophetic track record. I am sure we all remember when Elijah defended his prophetic track record only to see Elisha smash his old records! You don't? perhaps that is because all prophets are supposed to have the same record, which is 100% perfect. God is not confusing, and He does not stutter. If you were wrong once, you were stoned to death, gulp.

"It's the same with the governor of New York (Andrew Cuomo), which was a very strong word. The word that was connected with the governor of New York, also was down to that day when a year later, he was removed from office. It was a strong word for him in that he would be judged for what he had done concerning abortion in that if he did not repent, God would remove him. That was a dream that I had, prayed over that. I really believed that there would be a change in his heart and there wasn't. But ultimately the prophecy played out and he was removed from office." - Charisma News

So, Mr. Sham believes that God warned him about his stance on abortion but removed him by exposing sexual misconduct? Why would the omnipotent God need to do that? Still, Shamp is offering this as proof of his prophetic bonafides. I guess God was really concerned with the Governor of New York at the time. How did Charlie do when the Lord became fixated on Michigan?

"In the wind I heard the Lord say the name "Whitmer" and saw the hand of God cover the state of Michigan. The word of the Lord came to me saying, "My wind of Justice will blow across the state of Michigan for I have seen what has been done in secret. I will expose your corruption before all to see. How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, or does their calamity fall on them? Are you not as straw before the wind, and like chaff which the storm carries away? For you Whitmer have conceived chaff, you will give birth to stubble; My breath will consume your administration like a fire. Like chaff from the summer threshing floors the wind will carry your power away so that not a trace of your authority will be found in the coming days. Behold, I have made a new sharp threshing sledge with double edges to expose you. I will raise up a champion from the corn fields of this state that will champion the people and their cause. For is there not a cause? Is there not darkness in the land that must be brought down? Is there no giant that must be judged? I will raise up a champion that will thresh the mountain of government and pulverize it in the land. I will make the hill you call a throne like chaff. I will winnow it, and the wind will carry it away. There shall be a storm of accusation that will come and this storm will scatter all the things that have been hidden in your administration. I say to you justice will come and corruption will fall from its throne. And you will stand before me and my courts in heaven and plead for mercy. You will weep, but my people will rejoice." - Charlie Shamp

Beloved, this is sheer and utter nonsense. That the creator of the universe would spend this much time castigating a Governor of Michigan. Look at the specificity here! Shamp said that God said He would:

· Expose Governor's Whitmer's corruption

· That she will give birth to stubble

· That the breath of God will consume her administration like fire

· A new threshing sledge with double edges will expose Whitmer

· He will raise up a champion for these causes

· He will turn her throne into chaff

· That Whitmer will stand for judgment before Christ pleading for mercy

· The people of God will somehow rejoice in her tears

So how did Charlie Shamp do in this very detailed prophecy he released in late June of 2022? Absolutely none of this came remotely close to coming true. Whitmer won reelection in November of 2022 in a landslide. No chaff. No stubble. No corruption exposed. No threshing sledge. No bizarre scene of Christians celebrating her demise. None of it. Do you know why? It wasn't because he released it too soon. It wasn't because he did not consecrate himself enough. It was because God never said it. Let me repeat that. God never said it. Just like He never said any of the other silly, NAR, dominionist prophecies Shamp proudly displays on his page. Back to the Charisma article.

"For those skeptical of Shamp's prophetic words, Shamp says he welcomes them to come to his website, destinyencounters.com, and his YouTube channel, Destiny Encounters, to check out the validity and authenticity of not only the words God has given him, but also the timing of those words. Shamp says there are a number of prophetic words he has received in the past that are beginning to come to fruition in this current season. One of them involves the exposure of corruption and the revitalization of the United States." - Charisma News

A common tool the false prophet uses are vague prophecies with no apparent timeline. This allows any changing news to be applied to the prophecy, no matter how old. The translation needed here is that the reason there is corruption is that there is a Democratic president and that all Republicans are righteous. This is the overarching theme of dominionists. Their current standard bearer is facing four different felonies but it's the other guy that is corrupt. If you think God wants the church to defend as righteous a man who cheated on all three of his wives, the last one with a porn star while his wife was pregnant, then I do not know what bible you are reading. None are righteous and neither party cares about the cause of Christ. As for the invite to check his accuracy, thanks. I have. Let us now turn to a prophecy from Mr. Sham dated July 30, 2022. The political tenor back then was all in favor of the up-and-coming Ron DeSantis. Ron was being coronated as the heir to the Trump legacy as more and more people were souring on the Donald. Fast forward to today and we see DeSantis is being annihilated by Trump in all polling as he implodes his future political prospects by picking fights with Mickey Mouse. Shamp did not know that back then, even though he claims to be prophetic so instead, we received the following "prophetic" word called, The Righteous Man Will Flourish:

'The word of the Lord came to me saying, "Son of man what do you see?" I see a palm tree flourishing in the summer sun. The Lord spoke again, "You have seen correctly. For I will take this palm tree and transplant it to Washington DC in the days ahead. I will make this righteous man to carry my message to Washington when he has been fully prepared. I will make Ron a rod of authority in Washington. He stood in the storm that came called Covid and was not moved. He will stand when the hurricane hits and will not bend nor break. Then I will plant him in the nation's capital to be a rod of authority and a pillar of righteousness to rebuild the nation. I have raised up the trumpet to sound the alarm. I will raise up this Ron as a rod and he will shout with my righteous sound. What has been will be again. I raised up a Ronald who came as a Palm Tree to Washington and helped rebuild America in the past. He fought against terrorism and tore down the walls of communism. I will once again raise up a Ronald to help fight against terrorism and tear down the walls of communism with a shout. The nation will flourish like the palm tree for I hold America in the palm of my hand and will use this righteous man."' - Charlie Shamp

Note all of the inane Republican talking points. DeSantis' inaction on COVID in his state cost people their lives. It should not be celebrated! Ronald Reagan is held in esteem apparently by God despite overthrowing other country's governments, ruining the national economy for decades and potentially cutting a deal to hold the hostages in Iran until he was elected. This is just propaganda and the notion that God would pick sides with equally immoral creations is absurd. Getting back to this specific prophecy however, Charlie Shamp is now all in on Ron DeSantis becoming the next president. He released this false word when all the political signs were screaming DeSantis but now, it seems highly unlikely. Can't wait to see him explain this one away. The rest of this article is just more Republican talking points and conspiracy theories like Hunter Biden's laptop and accusing China of attacking the US with the COVID virus.

The bottom line is the God who spoke everything into existence is not wasting His time adjudicating political morass in Michigan. These are the things that bother men, not God. So, man tries to co-opt God. He tries to pretend God is on his side politically. That is what the NAR dominionist movement does every day. One of the tools it uses are willful idiots like Charlie Sham (p). He comes at us armed with the latest GOP talking points but first pretends to have consecrated himself before God instructed him to release the talking points. Except the vast majority do not come true. So, either Shamp makes God a liar, or Shamp himself is lying. He doesn't really have a red bat phone connected to the throne room. Whatever demons talk to him they are not God. Gretchen Witmer is still Governor of Michigan. She isn't chaff blowing in the wind. Ron DeSantis seems to have as much chance being president as he has in his never-ending brawl with Goofy. Those were just two randomly selected false prophecies I chose to read. Think about the sheer arrogance it takes to leave these false prophecies up on his page! Not only does he treat his followers with brazen contempt for their intelligence but he simply thinks they are too lazy to read his own website! As if you need me to tell you - mark and avoid.

Reverend Anthony Wade - April 27, 2023

Authors Bio:
Credentialed Minister of the Gospel for the Assemblies of God. Owner and founder of 828 ministries. Vice President for Goodwill Industries. Always remember that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.